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Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

The Scammiest Scam To Yet Anonymity Scam

I'm still holding out for this being a hoax, a big joke, and that they're going to cancel the kickstarter any minute. It'd be quite the cute "lessons learned" about anonymity scams. However, I will be treating it from here on out as a genuine scam. (As of May 2nd, the kickstarter has been cancelled, after the strangest attempt to reply to this imaginable. Good riddance.)

This absolutely ridiculous thing was brought to my attention by a friend and since it was late at night I thought I must be delirious in how absurdly over the top fake it seemed. So I slept on it, woke up, and found that it had gotten a thousand dollars more funding and was every bit as flabbergasting as I thought it was.

Since I realize that not everyone has spent their entire lives studying computers – and such people are the targets of such scams –

NOTE: a more up-to-date version of this can be found on my blog

nix-shell and Shebang Lines

A few days ago, version 1.9 of the Nix package manager was released. From the release notes:

nix-shell can now be used as a #!-interpreter. This allows you to write scripts that dynamically fetch their own dependencies.

Document moved to: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/HACKING_QUICKSTART.md

	*foreground: #D7D0C7
	*background: #151515

	!black
	! *color0: #AF875F
	! *color8: #AF875F
	*color0: #101010
	*color8: #404040
	!red
	*color1: #E84F4F

	set pgp_sign_as=0xA0ACE70A

	set pgp_decode_command="gpg %?p?--passphrase-fd 0? --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
	set pgp_verify_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --verify %s %f"
	set pgp_decrypt_command="gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --no-verbose --batch --output - %f"
	set pgp_sign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --detach-sign --textmode %?a?-u %a? %f"
	set pgp_clearsign_command="gpg --no-verbose --batch --output - --passphrase-fd 0 --armor --textmode --clearsign %?a?-u %a? %f"
	set pgp_encrypt_only_command="pgpewrap gpg --batch --quiet --no-verbose --output - --encrypt --textmode --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 0xA0ACE70A -- -r %r -- %f"
	set pgp_encrypt_sign_command="pgpewrap gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --quiet --no-verbose --textmode --output - --encrypt --sign %?a?-u %a? --armor --always-trust --encrypt-to 0xA0ACE70A -- -r %r -- %f"
	set pgp_import_command="gpg --no-verbose --import -v %f"

	#!/bin/sh

	DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Downloads/weather
	REGION=txgulf

	# make download dir if not available
	if [ ! -d "$DOWNLOAD_DIR" ]; then
	mkdir -p $DOWNLOAD_DIR
	fi

	" Insert into your .vimrc after quick-scope is loaded.
	" Obviously depends on <https://github.com/unblevable/quick-scope> being installed.

	" Thanks to @VanLaser for cleaning the code up and expanding capabilities to include e.g. `df`

	let g:qs_enable = 0
	let g:qs_enable_char_list = [ 'f', 'F', 't', 'T' ]

	function! Quick_scope_selective(movement)
	let needs_disabling = 0

	// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2014.
	// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive events.
	var _ComcastAlert = (function(){
	return {
	SYS_URL: '/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do'
	, dragObj: {zIndex: 999999}
	, browser: null
	, comcastCheck: 1
	, comcastTimer: null
	, xmlhttp: null

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